With last night being the official start of the 2009/2010 season, and Part III close to 500 posts, it's time for a new thread.

Monday, September 22nd

FOX
House (2-hour season premiere) - 16.5 million; 6.5/16
- 8pm: 15.22 million; 5.9/16
- 8:30pm: 16.29 million; 6.4/16
- 9pm: 17.13 million; 6.8/16
- 9:30pm: 17.37 million; 6.9/16

ABC
Dancing with the Stars (2-hour season premiere) - 17.53; 4.1/10
- 8pm: 17.10 million; 3.8/10
- 8:30pm: 17.76 million; 4.1/10
- 9pm: 17.74 million; 4.2/10
- 9:30pm: 17.53 million; 4.1/10
Castle (season premiere) - 9.43 million; 2.3/6

CBS
How I Met Your Mother (season premiere) - 9.21 million; 3.5/9
Accidentally on Purpose (series premiere) - 8.99 million; 3.2/8
Two and a Half Men (season premiere) - 13.59 million; 4.4/10
The Big Bang Theory (season premiere) - 12.83 million; 4.6/10
CSI Miami (season premiere) - 13.73 million; 4.3/12

NBC
Heroes (2-hour season premiere) - 6.02 million; 2.8/7
- 8pm: 6.48 million; 2.8/7
- 8:30pm: 6.06 million; 2.8/7
- 9pm: 5.73 million; 2.7/6
- 9:30pm: 5.82 million; 2.7/6
The Jay Leno Show - 5.67 million; 1.8/5

CW
One Tree Hill - 2.48 million; 1.2/3
Gossip Girl - 2.09 million; 1.1/3

That week-to-week drop for "The Jay Leno Show" is remarkable.

But as it's essentially the same recipe as "The Tonight Show" how does it compare in the ratings during Leno's tenure?

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stupid NBC, they should have picked up Legally Mad instead of Leno 5 nights a week (3 nights would've been enough)

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Originally posted by 24Emmy:
stupid NBC, they should have picked up Legally Mad instead of Leno 5 nights a week (3 nights would've been enough)

Unless the ratings completely crater, NBC will stick with the five-night strategy for the time being. But we could very well see a reduction to 2 or 3 nights at some point.

Wow "House" was catching up to "Dancing With the Stars" ratings wise. I didn't know that "One Tree Hill" did better than "Gossip Girl"

If the Leno freefall continues, you are going to start seeing some of the non NBC owned/operated stations move their local news up to 10 pm and run Leno late, late night, as is their right.

It's no longer a question of whether this *could* be Heroes' final season; this *will be* its final season. It is a dead show walking. 46% decline in the 18-49 demo from last year's season opener. The two episodes last night now rank as the lowest-rated of the entire series (9PM lowest, 8PM 2nd lowest). Second-lowest demo rating ever, if the number holds up in the final nationals which will be out later this evening.

So, is "Accidently On Purpose" a hit or a flop? did it match the numbes that "Gary, Unmarried" was getting last year?

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Originally posted by Boidiva02:
So, is "Accidently On Purpose" a hit or a flop? did it match the numbes that "Gary, Unmarried" was getting last year?

I thought it was a decent pilot. Why are there no threads for the CBS comedies?

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Originally posted by 24Emmy:

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Originally posted by Boidiva02:
So, is "Accidently On Purpose" a hit or a flop? did it match the numbes that "Gary, Unmarried" was getting last year?

I thought it was a decent pilot. Why are there no threads for the CBS comedies?

Make one. A person just needs to care enough about a show to start a thread.

I thought "Accidentally on Purpose" was pretty awful...

Back to ratings, I'm actually happy for the Leno free fall. I am still angry about the loss of 5 hours of scripted television! ... totally happy for "House"'s numbers too.

There's a How I Met Your Mother thread...

Yeah, this will be Heroes' final season.

So long, Heroes.

Nice to see Houses' ratings get back up there.

Wow, the ratings on House went up and up and almost caught Dancing With the Stars. And amazingly, the actual episode of House got better and better as it went along. Which means more people were watching the episode as it got better. That is almost shocking. Wow, and it crushed in the demos. 6.9? Wow.

Seeing ratings like that, it makes me wonder if those writers on House might really want to take a risk and shake up the show. Break it out of that format. Clearly, the audience still responds to non-standard House episodes.

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Also on Monday night...

Monday Night Football (ESPN): 14.7 million viewers (the largest audience for any program on cable in 2009)

Day 2:

CBS 11.1/18
ABC 8.9/14
NBC 4.5/7
Fox 4.0/6 (Hell's Kitchen 2-hour special)
CW 1.3/2

NCIS: 11.8/19 (the D-list dancing show beaten!)
NCIS: Los Angeles 11.5/18
The Good Wife:10.2/17
DWTS: 10.2/16
The Forgotten: 6.2/11
Jay Leno Show: 4.8/8
The Biggest Loser: 4.3/7
90210: 1.4/ 2
Melrose Place: 1.3/2

Tuesday, September 22nd

CBS
NCIS (season premiere) - 20 million; 4.6/13
NCIS: LA (series premiere) - 18.32 million; 4.4/11
The Good Wife (series premiere) - 13.72 million; 3.1/9

ABC
Dancing with the Stars (two-hour) - 15.18 million; 3.5/10
8:00 p.m. – 13.53 million; 2.9/9
8:30 p.m. – 14.75 million; 3.4/9
9:00 p.m. – 16.16 million; 3.8/10
9:30 p.m. – 16.28 million; 3.9/10
The Forgotten (series premiere) - 9.53 million; 2.6/7

NBC
The Biggest Loser (two hours) - 7.48 million; 3.1/8
8:00 p.m. – 6.76 million; 2.7/8
8:30 p.m. – 7.11 million; 3.0/8
9:00 p.m. – 7.63 million; 3.2/8
9:30 p.m. – 8.42 million; 3.5/9
The Jay Leno Show - 6.77 million; 2.4/7

FOX
Hell Kitchen (two episodes) - 6.8 million; 3.3/9

CW
90210 - 2.17 million; 1.1/3
Melrose Place - 1.45 million; 0.8/2

God, Tuesday nights suck for TV.

Not promising for The Good Wife to drop from its lead-in so much.

Melrose Place is dead. Locklear coming back won't matter. I wouldn't be surprised if it got less than 1 million viewers by then with the rate its ratings are dropping.

Ostroff needs to be fired. Immediately.